Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri launches Ashok Tandon's new book "The Reverse Swing"

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The role and contribution of Mahatma Gandhi in India's freedom struggle is well-documented and he was "quite a complicated being", Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday (October 18). "A new book by Ashok Tandon, former media advisor to late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, "The Reverse Swing: Colonialism to Cooperation", tells the mystery of this bank account, which still exists in the name of Princess Catherine. A book analyzing India-UK relations over the last seven decades was released here today by Union Minister Hardeep Puri. It goes into detail about unaccounted Indian wealth in offshore accounts and recalls that during British rule in India, many Indian royals visited Britain and Europe, buying precious assets at auction houses and money in luxury hotels. They spent and brought expensive sanitary ware, cutlery, gold-plated taps and other valuables back to their palaces. Catherine Hilda's Swiss account first came to light in July 1997 when Swiss banks froze the assets of Holocaust victims. The names of holders of inactive accounts were published to be restored for descendants.


     

     

     

 

     


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